Train Stop Size:S The station was the terminus

The station was the terminus of a branch line that took 37 years to push south from Joppa Junction to the Monaro tablelands

and light snow falls across the scene

The works closed permanently in August 1988

the 88-metre platform stretches out against the flat Monaro tableland

then serving as a hospital for the aged

Train Stop Size:S The station was the terminusA concrete platform edges into encroaching scrub at Waratah Park, its tracks rusted silent and the weeds long since claiming the margins where visitors once waited. The stop is one of the site's undocumented additions, sitting within a 12. 6 hectare property that operated as a public wildlife park from January 1970 until 2006. Part of the Waratah Park series.